Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when I hear this kind of trash I can't help thinking of a little boy shouting at the local bully "Just you wait till my big brother gets after you." Another thing, don't forget that these songs are the product of that lucre-loving, back-stabbing boulevard known as Tin Pan Alley. Therefore, they are by definition a commodity, written, composed, and played in a commercial rather than a patriotic spirit. Finally, I don't think it's quite fair to America to call them American songs-- they're not even Japanese...
...Army will need all roads in case of emergency, the business of evacuating Los Angeles County would take, at the minimum, 16 days. Another Council theory is: no blackouts. Instead, it plans to try out a system of changing light patterns. Thus, in case of trouble, traffic on Wilshire Boulevard (from the air, a steady band of light) would be shifted to other streets. Similar shifts are in order for other major arteries, but precise details are another secret...
...week after once earning $2,000 is to lose izzat. Film folk of superior izzat, putting in a phone call to an inferior, wait studiously until the inferior is on the wire before deigning to pick up the telephone receiver. Peter the Hermit, who struts along Hollywood Boulevard in his bare feet, is short on cash but long on izzat...
...racial good will. He advised Joe to treat his opponents with unusual deference, inside the ring and out. He forbade him to have his picture taken with any white woman, or ever to enter a cabaret alone. When Joe was caught speeding at 90 m.p.h. along a Chicago boulevard, Roxborough took away his driving license, has never since permitted him to drive a car (one of Joe's brothers has since been his chauffeur...
...Sixth Avenue Association's plan calls for redesigning the Avenue's 27 midtown blocks. Between two focuses-a gigantic garment center and a music center which would eventually replace Carnegie Hall-it would become the "Avenue of the Americas," a broad, tree-lined boulevard hedged with buildings housing the Manhattan interests of all the Latin-American republics...